Alex G - Brite Boy (Official Video) 

One of my best friends died of an overdose about 6 months ago. I discovered this song and video right after he died and started watching it constantly and started thinking of the black dog as my friend. I was helping my friends brother move my friends stuff out of his apartment, and I ended up looking through my friends sketchbook and found a drawing of a dog that looks a lot like the black dog. I ended up getting it tattooed on my arm.

I know this song is supposed to be about the loss of someone you love, but it hit me in a similar spot. I was bullied throughout my school years up until I reached high school and I only had one friend who I had met in 3rd grade. He had been my only friend and I was his only friend as we were the “nerds” who were outcasted and bullied by everyone. We had such a deep connection and he was more similar to me than anyone else I’ve ever met. In 6th grade, he told me he would be moving to another state over the summer. I had a learning disability and my mind was also quite innocent and I was a very imaginative kid, I had not experienced much reality in my life yet. I was not able to fully understand what this would mean. I had not had any contact with him as I had just recently gotten my first mobile device and I had no social media or friends to share contact with, nor did I even understand how that worked. Over the summer I started learning new things and it was a huge growth period for my mind and mental state, probably the biggest change in my own self I’ve ever experienced. I was so excited to share this with him when I got back. I remember I came into school so excited to share everything with him, to share my new experiences and growth. But he was not in his usual spot. After a little bit, it dawned on me. I remembered her told me he would be moving. Only at that point did I fully understand what that meant, that he would not be there anymore and I had no contact with him. This started my years of depression and anxiety which I am still currently facing. I am an older and much stronger Mentally and physically person now, although not emotionally, still whenever I hear this song I can’t help but to burst into tears as it forces me into my memories about him and how he left. How I wish he would come back, how I wasn’t ready for him to go. He was my only true friend and it struck me like a hammer. I love this song. It embodies everything I feel into the minute and a half that he’s singing. It’s beautiful. Alex g is truly one of the most underrated musicians out there. Thank you for this song, it has helped me through a lot.

Rest in Peace, Desmond "Etika" Amofah. You were an inspiration to so many people. Wherever you are, I hope you are happy.

this song is really elevated by the video, idk what it is about it that gets to me so much, its just so saddening and amazing

Bright boy I can help you If you let me take your hand Bring you right to promise land Bring you right to promise Bright boy I could love you If you let me be your wife Love you so for all my life Love you so for all my Waiting by the water You return with eyes cast down Bright boy what has made you frown Bright boy what has made you Waiting by the water Sun is setting on the sea Bright boy please return to me Bright boy please return to

This song makes me so sad yet so happy ??

I cried. I've been having thoughts of suicide lately more than usual. This just made me think of all of the people I love in my life. I think I've been looking for more than I need. I love my family, I love my friends, and I'm happy they are here with me. I think they love me too. Thank you for this, I love you, this is probably the 3rd song I've ever heard from you. Anyone who is reading this and feels lonely come chat.

This song is one of the most important Alex has made, in my opinion. Prevention is possible, and may our fallen friends and family rest in peace:(

my girlfriend showed me this song when I was in the hospital comming down from morphine .What a trip.

This music video brings me to tears because like many people in the comment section , it reminds me of friends I’ve lost to overdose throughout the past few years of my life. Coping with loss has been very difficult for me. I love that the end of this video implies that even though they’re gone they’re always with you and they’ll always be apart of you. Its comforting to listen to this and read these comments and know I’m not alone in feeling like this.

theres something really tragic about how the black wolf friend "comes back" when white wolf friend is going through his life. i think that it's supposed to resemble how when someone you love dies, you see them everywhere. wether it be the places you spent time together or the things you liked or things that are unexplainably... them. they always follow you.

this song makes me cry a lil bit

wow, alex... great moves, keep it up, proud of you

No one will read this but this song pretty much dragged me through my senior year of high school. Moved eight hours away from my home to finish school and shortly after I met my twin flame, Lucas. We were never in any type of romantic relationship, but our minds and our emotions were mirrored by each other on a cosmic level. His last name is Bright (bright boy) and I will always hear this song and feel his soul sitting with me. And that’s what makes this video so perfect for me. I just moved away and I’m experiencing the eerie yet comfortable sensation of knowing that someone who can’t be with you in the flesh can still be felt and seen and talked to in your head. I’ll be getting a tattoo of the two dogs in a few weeks. Thank you again Alex.

I have a very weird obsession with this song

I can't be the only one that cried to this lol

This made me Happy

I feel this song, as both being about me, but also about my best friend who passed away from an OD last year and a months change. This kid was so smart, but he destroyed his mind with drugs and fell in and out of trouble. I never got as bad as him, but I'm sure people around me felt the same. I've been on both sides of this song, it has a special place for me.

Probably the best song on the album.

Almost 4 years have passed and i still listen to it

it’s so hard to believe this song was released SEVEN years ago

This song will be my heart forever 🐞

i been listening to this song for a few months now and i know this song is about a loved ones passing, but i cant help the fact that this song reminds me of my first true love i instantly fell in love with everything about him i still am and i feel like i would always be its been 1 year now and i told him how i actually felt about him and he felt the same i remember being so happy and full of so much emotion i may be a hopeless romantic but i dont care i love him so much.

This song makes me want to fly away and forget about everything..

Bro I have been bawling my eyes out. I cannot stop crying

The version in concert when he belts out "brite boy" with intensity is so good. Wish they had that recorded - like it better than this version. This one's much more mellow.

Why does tbis song sound so happily bittersweet. Its hard to describe

I recently found this song a couple of weeks before this comment and have been listening to it near constantly. There was a girl I was talking to online across the country, and we had talked nearly every day for four years. We never dated, but I did love her, even if she never loved me back. I helped her out with her depression and anxiety issues and I didn't do it to get her to love me, I just helped because I cared about her. About 6 months ago I'm trying to help her out with her feelings for someone she likes closer to home, and suddenly she gets very mad and blocked me for seemingly no reason. I have not heard from her since, but my heart still longs for her, even if there are other people I fall in love with. This song reminds me of her, and my feelings for her. I know this isn't as sad or touching as any of the other stories in this comment section, but it's my story with this song. Caitlin, if you ever listen to this song, know I'm thinking about you and hope you're doing well. And I hope everyone in these comments finds the love of our lives.

this song and this video fit together so perfectly

love this, such a beautiful song with great animation. honestly wish this song was longer

this song makes me so happy about people

this song makes me cry for so many different reasons.

Coming back to this mv after a while is still as trippy as the first time

this song reminds me of my old friend that i loved so much and i feeling for and i wished i told them but when the day i was going to tell them they died and i cried for 10 years nonstop i was so depressed i couldn’t even get out my bed and even use my phone i was so tried some times i wish i could go back in time and tell them i love them but they probably didn’t even love me back everyone tried to make me happy but nothing worked at all

this is beautiful . hit the spot for sure

nailed it. nice job, Elliot

thank you, alex g.

this song has got me thru many a funk. thank you for such incredible music! cant wait to see you at first ave in a couple months. love you

Loving this Alex G ! Pls keep making music !

This song makes me feel something.

wow was not expecting that! loved it

I was expecting something hardcore from the black and white image. This was nice.

A song for anyone lost in the hopelessness of a friend/loved ones drug addiction.

"It's better to love than never to have loved at all" PSHHHHHH

Rad. Adding to our music video playlist, thanks!

RIP Daniel Johnston

truly beautiful

Yes! I love Elliot Bech's art check out his band Cousin Brian

such a beautiful song

best song of the album

directing this to my first gay crush

Since other people took the chance to vent I’d like to as well, when I first started listening to the song it was with my ex a while back, we were recovering from an acid high so he was nuzzled in my arms, song came on n we both never heard it before. I loved the song n he seemed to like it too but half way through he started crying? I didn’t know at the time so I just held him closer to me, it wasn’t unusual for him to cry as he was kinda sad at times. Down the line I found out it reminded him of the person he was cheating on me with and he started to cry. The Alone should make me hate it but I actually really love the song, I did lose someone I loved tho only because they were unfaithful. I listen to this from time to time when I start to feel weak n sad about the whole situation, as a reminder that they betrayed me n I have to move on. Thank you for this song.

This hurts

i love this

one last trip

i love this song

I love this song

interesting and relaxing Alex G.

son los mejores :)

this song ❤

Always makes me cry

my lovely brite boy.

muito bom.

great song

The fucjing guitar gooddddd

Neil Young meets Duster meets Daniel Johnston

perfeito

i miss you, hope you're better. - xoxo, alex

I love you Austin. Please don't let heroin take you from me.

pls come to brazil

here come brite boy

reminds me of one of my friends

thats nostalgic af

Huge Daniel Johnston vibes

OKAY STOP WRITING SAD THINGS IN THIS COMMENT SECTION I DONT WANNA CRY RN MAYBE LATER THO THANKS ALEX G

this video is so good

New fan.

This song makes me think this reality is too good for me

heard this opening for a pet shimmers video, what a BANGER

Brite boy, what has made you frown?

This song makes me happy and sad

THIS SONG

i watched someone lose themself to xanax and this song reminds me of them

ily alex

poesía

I found this at the right time

i used to listen this when i was 15.............. now i'm 17 and seems a long long time ago

♥

Amazing very pleasing to the senses . 420 yolo swag

Does anyone have recommendations for songs/albums similar to this track? I listened to the rest of Alex Gs beach album, but none of the songs hit like this one for me. Thanks

i miss my best friend, he left me when he found new friends, i miss him everyday, i dont want to spend another year alone.. My dad says i will get better like alex g got, i am 14 year old

This song makes me sad

nicely upbeat when its played at 1.25 speed

feeling fluffy

Brite boy what has made you frown, brite boy what has made you frown

RIP black walf -.-

I watched this while on acid and cried so fucking hard

Daniel, if you read this i just wanna say i love you and miss you :( you're not dead but it looks like i am to you.

something about the animation reminds me of julia pott, i can’t pinpoint it

This song sounds SO familiar. I swear I heard this, Does anyone know songs similar to this?